Graeme Hunter

Full Professor, Department of Philosophy

Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.

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Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 3667
E-mail: ghunter@uOttawa.ca

University degrees

PhD, MA in Philosophy, University of Toronto
BA, Bishop University

Fields of interest

  • Modern Philosophy
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics

Ongoing research

Some of my popular writing is collected in In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, edited by Andrew Irvine and John S. Russell, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

My current scholarly research involves completing a book with the working title: Pascal the Philosopher, to appear with University of Toronto Press in 2011.

Seminars

  • The Philosophy of Pascal (2009)
  • Leibniz’s Later Philosophy (2007)
  • Realism and Modern Philosophy (2006)
  • Evil in Modern Thought (2004)

Selected publications

“Cicero’s Neglected Argument from Design,” The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 17.2 (2009), pp. 235-245.

Radical Protestantism in Spinoza's Thought, Ashgate, 2005

“Blaise Pascal” in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Steven Nadler, Oxford, Blackwell, 2002.

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